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A new NBER working paper examines how New York City's congestion relief zone, launched January 5, 2025, affected emergency medical service response near the toll boundary at 60th Street. Using half a million EMS dispatch records and traffic camera data, researchers found hospital transport times fell by 54-59 seconds and total EMS travel time dropped by roughly 63-70 seconds within a 5-kilometer band around the zone's edge.
A federal lawsuit filed by the FTC alleges that Amazon secretly raised minimum price thresholds in some advertising auctions after bids were already submitted, effectively changing the rules mid-game. The suit claims this practice forced advertisers to pay more than they should have, generating billions in extra revenue for Amazon.
New pricing data tracked across 10 countries shows graphics card prices jumping sharply in the six weeks since the last survey, reversing a modest decline seen earlier in 2026. Nvidia's GeForce lineup appears to be absorbing the steepest increases, based on lowest verified in-stock prices from comparison sites in each region.
Following antitrust cases against RealPage, Yardi and major landlords over algorithmic rent-setting software, cities including San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Philadelphia and Providence have passed laws restricting such pricing tools. Tenants and local governments are now filing follow-on lawsuits, including a July 2026 case against Greystar Management Services in San Francisco, using these new statutes rather than traditional antitrust claims.
GLM-5.3-Flash is a text-only model with a 400k token context window that scored 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, far above the comparable median of 18. It is priced at $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens, both below the median rates for similar models, with the full benchmark run costing $138.02.